page_title: Yonec
hierarchical_section_title: Yonec
caption_attribution_description: English: manuscript page of the lai Yonec The resolution of this file has been reduced from the original high quality file used by the Bibliotheque Nationale. The purpose of this illustration is to provide a frame of reference for the manuscript referred to in the article Yonec.
context_page_description: "Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem. The poem is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French in rhyming couplets of eight syllables each. This lai tells the story of a woman who seeks to escape a loveless marriage, and of the child born from the love that she found elsewhere.
context_section_description: "Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem. The poem is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French in rhyming couplets of eight syllables each. This lai tells the story of a woman who seeks to escape a loveless marriage, and of the child born from the love that she found elsewhere.
caption: An image of the Yonec text
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